Hi Cadre, happy Friday! Today we’re going to talk about how reflecting back on the day mentally or through a journal can be a way to improve mindfulness and positive action.
Josie says hello, wishes viewers a happy Friday, and briefly introduces herself and her roles as a holistic coach, yoga teacher, and co-founder of a beverage company. She frames the topic of the short talk: reflections.
Josie describes how reflection has been a recurring theme in her work and media, and emphasizes that pausing to rehearse your day is a powerful practice that can be done at the start or end of a day.
Josie offers specific prompts to use in reflection: what went well, what felt good, what didn't feel good, triggers, challenges, and things to be grateful for, including simple daily comforts.
Josie explains how regular reflection helps identify triggers, prevents carrying past events through the week, and trains your ability to notice moments in real time, likening it to strengthening a muscle.
Josie invites viewers to try the three reflection questions tonight, recommends journaling as a helpful method, offers a tip about writing lag time aiding insight, and closes with thanks and well wishes.
All right, hello cadre. Happy Friday. I hope that you've all had a lovely day so far and if it was a rough day, hey, that's okay too. It's the end of the day. Hopefully you are done with your work day and you can take a moment to pause, rest, and recharge. My name is Josie. a holistic coach, a yoga teacher, and co-founder of a beverage company called Charm Social Tonic. And today I just wanted to pop on here and talk a little bit about reflections. This has been a bit of a theme that I have been seeing throughout the week with some of my clients and both in media that I've been seeing across social media and podcasts I've been listening to.
And it is just a very powerful practice to have yourself take a pause. And this can be either at the end of the at the end of your day or at the beginning of your day. And just take a moment and think, okay, What went well today? Rehearsing the day throughout your mind and just taking a moment to reflect. What went well today? What felt good? What didn't feel good? Was there something that triggered me today that kind of threw the rest of my day into into and created a domino effect because that's very real.
And then another thing that I like to add to that, to those two questions, so what went well today? What was something that was challenging? And then I also love to add, what am I grateful for today? What's something that happened that I'm grateful for? And if it's not something that happened, maybe it's something simple like something around you to even have a roof over your head. And that can kind of help shift our brains into a more opportunistic mode. And having yourself come back to this practice and doing this reflective process is very helpful for allowing us to cultivate more self-awareness that we can take throughout the day.
And instead of so sometimes say something bad happens on a Monday, sometimes we can take that instance that happened on Monday and it can we can carry it with us throughout the entire week and then all of a sudden the full week goes by and we were just feeling in disarray and not not feeling good because of this event that happened on Monday rather than noticing that hey this was on Monday this is done this already happened this is in the past I can drop down that luggage, I can let it go, and I don't need to carry it with me forward.
And just simply giving yourself the space to pause, have that realization, and allow yourself to let that go is such a liberating feeling. And sometimes we don't even realize that we can let that go. We want to cling and hold on to it and just bring it with us, but we don't have to. And this reflective process, I prefer doing it at the end of the day, but if you don't have time at the end of the day, you can do it at any time. It's very helpful for being able to recognize that, those things that we're carrying with us, and over time, you will realize that it helps you to identify those cues or those triggers when they happen.
And then over time, you will improve upon it and get better and better. And eventually, you will even be able to recognize those moments during that day, in that moment, or shortly after. It's a muscle that you have to practice and train and over time it does get better. Alright, thank you so much Cadre. That is all I have for you. My task for you is, or my challenge for you is to try this out tonight. Ask yourself what went well today. What was something, where was I challenged today? And then what is something that I'm grateful for today?
Ask yourself those three questions and see what arises. You can either ask yourself these mentally. I honestly prefer journaling because there's something about putting pen to paper and writing it down and your brain thinks a little faster then you can write. So that little bit of lag time can kind of really help you process things more and come to more realizations. So that's a little tip right there. But yeah, so take some time. Mentally rehearse this or journal about it and then just see what arises from there.
All right. Thank you cadre. Have a great rest of your day.
